The new year has brought about quite a few changes. Cole is happily doing his business in the potty although has not gone anywhere else except for Kindercare, not even on our regular size toilets. He doesn't get potty treats anymore unless he goes on the big potty but he isn't interested. We aren't pushing anything since Grayson is still in diapers and flatly refuses to go in the potty. "I won't do it!" he says.
The conversion to big boy beds has been OK. If they aren't tired, due to having had a nap earlier in the day, then we run into problems of them not settling. They tear the bedroom apart, barricading the door with the trundle drawers and turning on the lights, emptying the drawers all over the room and causing lots of mayhem. And that's without a toy to play with in the room. We have resorted to taking out all the light bulbs in the overhead light and taking all the nightlights out so they can't see and therefore just stay in their beds. The same happens at nap time but you can't make it pitch black, so with the transition to beds also came the dropping of naps. Boo, that has been a hard adjustment for Trev and I. There is no time now to do anything as the boys are so busy you can't leave them alone for 2 seconds without a fight, throwing, biting, not listening, general bad behaviour, or them demanding something of you. Its like we have finally reached that point where we are the referee's in the black and white shirts, doling out warnings and timeouts all day long. They are full of piss and vinegar, on fire from when they wake up to when they fall into their beds exhausted. One time as I watched Cole relaxing in the bathtub (now done separately due to the fighting), his vision seemed to fade to a far away place, I realised he was falling asleep in the bath tub. On the positive side since there is no more napping they are going to bed earlier sometimes as early as 7 pm and usually sleeping until 7 am. We lost 2 hours of daytime but gained 1.5 hours of nighttime.
More positives of these new changes in their lives is that they have gotten over crying at Kindercare when Trevor or I drop them off. They like it so much that Trev and I even hit a powder day on Saturday morning for 4 hours, and had no regrets, they were happy to go. Yeah a little freedom!
